Guest question from udupendra.

(1) first proposed this seemingly outlandish concept. (2) shows a variation of the same. Identify (1) and (2).

Cracked by almost everyone! Check out udupendra’s comment for the answer straight from the horse’s mouth :)

nisha’s thambi, Martin, duriel, AmK, Neeraj, udupendra, Kal, username, Raghuvansh, Ps, Goyal, karthik, alephnull, svgreatest, Jean Valjean, Mo, Aparna, shrik, priyananda, Ananth, madhur, Siddharth Jain, Chandrakant Nair, quaziluffy, shenoyvarun86 and sne

Connect

The third dude has been on BB a few times.

Cracked by: Goyal , AmK , udupendra , Kal , p vs np , shrik , username , duriel , nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin.

Goyal, AmK, udupendra, Kal, p vs np, shrik, username, duriel, nisha’s thambi and malcaluffin

Identify this gedankenexperiment…

…and tell us what other famous term owes its origins to this experiment.

Part cracks: Kal, Ps, p vs np, udupendra, Vijay Shankar, Raghuvansh, Mo, Neeraj and Abhishek

Full cracks: sne, Dibyo, shrik, nisha’s thambi, username, duriel, priyananda

Har har I made a joke!

Kal, Ps, p vs np, sne, Dibyo, shrik, udupendra, nisha’s thambi, Vijay Shankar, username, Raghuvansh, duriel, Mo, priyananda, Neeraj and Abhishek

What are these a “bad choice” for?

Latest studies :)

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , duriel , username , shrik , karthik , Dibyo , Nakul and nisha’s thambi.Nice job!

Raghuvansh, duriel, username, shrik, karthik, Dibyo, Nakul and nisha’s thambi

Super simple plaintext question for today. What eatery connects Leigh Brackett, Ray Bradbury, Fredric Brown, Robert Heinlein, Henry Kuttner, Emil Petaja, and Jack Williamson?

Cracked by username , AmK , priyananda , p vs np , nisha’s thambi , Ananth , Sharada , Raghuvansh , karthik , Jean Valjean , mach101 , Dibyo , Kal , Aparna , duriel , madhur , Pawankumar Hegde , sidsen , udupendra and piezocake (who must be getting a commission).

username, AmK, priyananda, p vs np, nisha’s thambi, Ananth, Sharada, Raghuvansh, karthik, Jean Valjean, mach101, Dibyo, Kal, Aparna, duriel, madhur, Pawankumar Hegde, sidsen, udupendra and piezocake

Before After

What?

Cracked by: shrik , username , Kal , AmK , nisha’s thambi , karthik , yaksha , Goyal , Martin , abhinav k , Sharada , dheeraj , nishansolo , Prasad , Sridhar C , Ananth , Aparna , calvin , darthshak and duriel.

shrik, username, Kal, AmK, nisha’s thambi, karthik, yaksha, Goyal, Martin, abhinav k, Sharada, dheeraj, nishansolo, Prasad, Sridhar C, Ananth, Aparna, calvin, darthshak and duriel

Identify and connect:

Cracked by udupendra , Kaiser Soze , Kal , Raghuvansh , duriel , username , Sharada , p vs np , Nakul , Aparna , priyananda , shrik and nisha’s thambi.

udupendra, Kaiser Soze, Kal, Raghuvansh, duriel, username, Sharada, p vs np, Nakul, Aparna, priyananda, shrik, Ananth and nisha’s thambi

Although buildings like the one shown in 1 were technically possible, it was considered to be impractical and not built until people like 2 invented and perfected X. Identify 2 and tell us what is X.

1. 2.

Cracked by: Raghuvansh , Prasad , Kal , AmK , Dibyo , p vs np , Martin , username , udupendra , Rohan , Debasish , nisha’s thambi , karthik , sumo_ftb , Ananth , Aparna , duriel , Jo , darksideofchand , Pawankumar Hegde , Ps and sidsen.

Raghuvansh, Prasad, Kal, AmK, Dibyo, p vs np, Martin, username, udupendra, Rohan, Debasish, nisha’s thambi, karthik, sumo_ftb, Ananth, Aparna, duriel, Jo, darksideofchand, Pawankumar Hegde, Ps and sidsen

What connects this exhaustive chronological list?

1. Larry Wall
2. Miguel de Icaza
3. Brian Paul
4. Guido van Rossum
5. Lawrence Lessig
6. Alan Cox
7. Theo de Raadt
8. Andrew Tridgell
9. Ted Ts’o
10. Harald Welte

Cracked left, right and center.

Ananth, Goyal, karthik, nisha’s thambi, mach101, Prasad, AmK, Martin, p vs np, Kal, duriel, Rohan, Ps, Raghuvansh, yaksha, Atul Mathew, Jean Valjean, akhi, Debasish, priyananda, BASAB, udupendra, madhur, Dibyo, Aparna, username, varun, Neeraj, shenoyvarun86 and blindo

Who is this guy?

Hint: His followers invariably hate the guy below and get into bitter flame wars on the internet saying the guy above is better(recent research has evidance to prove otherwise)

Update: Fixed image. Thanks to duriel.

Cracked by almost everyone.

Dibyo, Rohan, Martin, p vs np, Gurupad, Ps, calvin, Debasish, shenoyvarun86, Goyal, akhi, Kal, duriel, username, Raghuvansh, Jean Valjean, Mo, Prasad, AmK, shrik, priyananda, Miraj C. Vora, malcaluffin, Aparna, nisha’s thambi, Siddharth Jain, Ananth, Atul Mathew, karthik, nishansolo and kiran